WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT ROME

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A famous dictator who helped Rome grow in size and strength. He also created the calendar we use today by naming months after himself.
A
Zeus
B
Augustus
C
Scipio
D
Julius Caesar
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Julius Caesar was a Roman general and politician who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire, a rule that lasted less than one year before he was famously assassinated by political rivals in 44 B.C.

Detailed explanation-2: -Five dictators in the House of Caesar: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero. Their names still bespeak power and excess. They came with the language of the Republic, but the reality of dictatorship.

Detailed explanation-3: -Augustus (27 BC-14 AD) He was highly regarded by the Senate, which eventually gave him the name of Augustus, and during four decades of rule (the longest of any Roman emperor), he helped transform the Roman Republic into a 1, 400-year-long empire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (/ˈsʌlə/; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force.

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